Partition Magic 4.0 ($-ware) will do this. The CD-ROM has some files you
can copy to a floppy which is bootable (DOS), so you don't need a Windows
OS to use it. I recently used it to wipe Win98 off my HD and repartition
it all for Linux, including chaning the size of the swap partition
(enlarging
Mark Yobb dixit:
> A rough step by step would help me out a whole bunch. Thanks
You might copy the whole filesystem (or by directories) to a different
location. That depends on whether you have an empty partition where to do
this, or a tape drive like a zip drive.
A straight forward method woul
A rough step by step would help me out a whole bunch. Thanks
MT
Mark Yobb wrote:
>
> Can a person repartition an existing linux partition (assuming it is
> not full) without losing the information on it? If so what software
> should one use. I repartitioned my original DOS partition without
> losing anything a long time ago but I am quite sure this was a DOS
Mark Yobb dixit:
> Can a person repartition an existing linux partition (assuming it is
> not full) without losing the information on it? If so what software
> should one use. I repartitioned my original DOS partition without
> losing anything a long time ago but I am quite sure this was a DOS ap
> I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive.
Assuming you want to format it as an ext2fs partition, you need
to use the "mke2fs" program to do that. As far as I know, you
can only do this from Linux. The Debian installation disks can
format your partition as one of the install ste
Hi
I've just finished repartition my hard drive using FIPS and have confirmed
that the partition was done, but the new partition doesn't seem to be
formatted. I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Do I:
(a) - Format the new drive first in DOS then boot Linux from t
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